The Baker Street Irregulars, the literary society focused on Sherlock Holmes, in cooperation with leading libraries and private collectors, publishes the Manuscript Series, to bring to the public facsimile editions of manuscripts and other documents relating to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with insightful commentary by talented Sherlockian and Doylean writers.
NEW! The sixth title in The BSI Manuscript Series, featuring the manuscript of "The Adventure of the Three Students," is now available. See the So Painful a Scandal page for details and to order it online. This volume is also part of a limited edition boxed set.
To order one of the earlier volumes in the Manuscript Series, use the shopping cart button for each book below, or order by mail.
Mandate for Murder
"The Adventure of the Red Circle" is the second story in the Baker Street Irregulars Manuscript Series with an Italian theme. This facsimile edition represents a unique collaboration of editors from two countries, Roy Pilot, BSI, of the United States, and Gianluca Salvatori, BSI, and Enrico Solito, BSI, of Italy. The volume includes a transcript of the manuscript held by the Lilly Library along with a typescript and transcription notes by Jane and Philip Weller. Contributors include Philip Weller's study on Italian infl uences in the Canon through six British residents of Naples; Gianluca Salvatori's comments on secret societies; Enrico Solito's major work on the principal Italian characters of the adventure; John Genova's paper on the Strand illustrators; and an original discovery by Steve Doyle, BSI, regarding the Long Island Cave mystery. Peter E. Blau contributed a brief note introducing two letters from Bliss Austin (reproduced here) regarding the provenance of the manuscript. (2006)
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The Napoleon Bust Business Again
Published by The Baker Street Irregulars with the co-operation of the Henry E. Huntington Library, a facsimile of the manuscript of “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons” and commentary. Edited and introduced by William Hyder, BSI, the volume includes a typescript of the manuscript, Hyder’s notes on the manuscript, and an extensive study of Italians in Victorian London. Also included are a study by James H. Arva of dramatizations of the story, an essay on the history of black pearls and the Borgias by Marshall S. Berdan, Peter Calamai’s examination of Horace Harker and Victorian journalism, and a remarkable discovery by Roy Pilot, BSI, of Conan Doyle’s involvement in a bust-manufacturing business. (2003)
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G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes
In cooperation with the Lilly Library of Indiana University, the BSI presents 19 unpublished illustrations of the Sherlock Holmes stories made by Gilbert Keith (G. K.) Chesterton (1874–1936), the great English artist, poet, theologian, journalist, critic, essayist, author, and creator of “Father Brown.” Commissioned for a never-published edition of the Canon, the illustrations lay for years virtually unknown in the Lilly Library Collection. Edited and introduced by Steven Doyle, BSI, the volume includes appreciations of Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist and Pasquale Accardo, BSI, an essay on the illustrations by Scott Bond, BSI, and Chesterton’s own splendid essays on Holmes and detective fiction. (2002)
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Angels of Darkness: A Drama in Three Acts
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A facsimile edition of a portion of the manuscript and a complete transcript of the previously unpublished manuscript. Edited and with an introduction by Peter E. Blau, and with commentary by leading Sherlockian and Doylean scholars. Hardbound (2001).
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Chapter XI)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A facsimile edition of the only extant chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Edited, with an introduction and commentary by leading Sherlockian and Doylean scholars. 109 pages, hardcover, 2001.
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